Photo in the color Banana yellow
Pictured: Banana yellow, the closest color we have a photo of (#FFE135)
rgb(254, 220, 57)
#FEDC39

Traffic Yellow #FEDC39 RGB Color Code

Name from the community color list.

Traffic Yellow (#FEDC39) is a vivid, very light yellow. In RGB it is made of 100% red, 86% green and 22% blue (R 254, G 220, B 57). The red channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 50Β°, 99% saturation and 61% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.726, so black text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 0% cyan, 13% magenta, 78% yellow and 0% black. Check it against your printer's ICC profile before you print. It is a warm color. It goes well with cool blues and greens for contrast. For a matching look, use nearby warm tones.

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Traffic Yellow color codes

#FEDC39 in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #FEDC39 Valid CSS
RGB rgb(254, 220, 57) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(50, 99%, 61%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(50, 78%, 100%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(50 22% 0%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(0%, 13%, 78%, 0%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(89.73% 0.1705 96.54) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(89.73% -0.0194 0.1694) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(88.74% 0.83 77.64) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(88.74% 77.65 89.39) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.9742 0.8676 0.3591) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.672 0.7255 0.1434) Valid CSS
Decimal 16702521 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.7255. Nearest web-safe color: #FFCC33.

Mix Traffic Yellow with other colors

See what #FEDC39 makes with red paint, under a green light, printed with cyan ink and in a digital blend with blue. Click a picture to change the colors and amounts in the color mixer.

PaintTraffic Yellow and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightTraffic Yellow and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintTraffic Yellow and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalTraffic Yellow blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Traffic Yellow in your code

Ready to paste into CSS, Sass, Tailwind, iOS, Android and Flutter. Click the icon to copy a line.

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CSS variable--traffic-yellow: #FEDC39;
Sass variable$traffic-yellow: #FEDC39;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-traffic-yellow: #FEDC39; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'traffic-yellow': '#FEDC39' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.996, green: 0.863, blue: 0.224)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.996, green: 0.863, blue: 0.224, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="traffic_yellow">#FFFEDC39</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFFFEDC39)

Accessibility and contrast

Black text works best on #FEDC39 (15.51:1, AAA). Here is how #FEDC39 does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
1.35:1 on white
APCA Lc 17
Fails AATry #8B7600
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
15.51:1 on black
APCA Lc -86
AAA

Check this color against any background in the contrast checker. WCAG ratios and APCA Lc values measure different things, so one can't stand in for the other. Learn more.

How people with color blindness see Traffic Yellow

#FEDC39 next to its complement and its two triadic colors, as seen with each type of color blindness.

  • Normal visionhow most people see it
  • Protanopiano red cones, about 1% of men
  • Deuteranopiano green cones, the most common type
  • Tritanopiano blue cones, very rare
  • Achromatopsiano color at all, very rare

#FEDC39 stays easy to tell apart from its complement and triadic colors for the common types of color blindness. Try your own colors in the color blindness simulator.

About the color Traffic Yellow

The gold in the German flag

Traffic yellow is RAL 1023 in the RAL Classic paint chart. Germany uses it for the gold stripe of its flag. Oddly, the flag color is called gold, but the paint behind it has a yellow name.

The Wikipedia list of RAL colours gives RAL 1023 as #F7B500, a deep golden yellow. The same list says it is used on the U4 line of the Berlin subway. Our RAL page shows it with the other yellows.

Paler than the paint

This page's traffic yellow is #FEDC39, from an open online name list. It is lighter and less orange than RAL 1023, so the codes do not match. Text on it should be dark: black on traffic yellow has a contrast ratio of 15.51 to 1. Close shades are school bus yellow and mustard.

Traffic Yellow in a user interface

A sample app screen with #FEDC39 as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #FEDC39 as it is. On the light theme, #FEDC39 is too hard to read as text (1.35:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #8B7600 there (4.48:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Traffic Yellow

These schemes turn the hue of #FEDC39 around the color wheel. Each swatch links to its own page.

Complementary

Two colors on opposite sides of the wheel. This gives the most contrast.

Open palette
this#FEDC39#395BFE

Analogous

Hues that sit next to each other and look good together.

Open palette
#FE7A39this#FEDC39#BEFE39

Triadic

Three hues spaced evenly around the wheel. Bold, but still balanced.

Open palette
this#FEDC39#39FEDC#DC39FE

Split complementary

A base color plus the two hues on each side of its opposite. Strong contrast that clashes less.

Open palette
this#FEDC39#39BEFE#7A39FE

Tetradic (rectangle)

Two pairs of opposite colors. Let one color lead and use the others less.

Open palette
this#FEDC39#5BFE39#395BFE#DC39FE

Square

Four hues 90Β° apart, spread evenly around the wheel.

Open palette
this#FEDC39#39FE7A#395BFE#FE39BE

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#655401#B89801#FED40E#FEE360#FFF2B3

Gradients with Traffic Yellow

Four CSS gradients made from #FEDC39. Copy the code, or open one in the gradient generator to change it.

Soft tint

From a pale tint to the full color.

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #FFF9DF, #FEDC39);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #FEDC39, #473C09);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #FE7A39, #FEDC39, #BEFE39);

Edit in the gradient generator

Triadic

A bold blend with a triadic color, through a clean middle.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #FEDC39, #BAF09B, #39FEDC);

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Shades, tints and tones of Traffic Yellow

Shades are darker, tints are lighter and tones are grayer. We make them in OKLCH so the steps look even. Hover a step to see its code, or click it to open it.

Design system scale (50 to 950)

Traffic Yellow sits at step 200. Export the full scale as CSS variables or Tailwind tokens from the picker.

  1. 50
    FFF7D6
  2. 100
    FCEEB2
  3. 200
    FEDC39
  4. 300
    DBC048
  5. 400
    BEA200
  6. 500
    9D8500
  7. 600
    7E6B00
  8. 700
    645400
  9. 800
    4F4200
  10. 900
    3A3000
  11. 950
    231D00

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #FEDC39 in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 1016 Sulfur yellow#F1DD38, nearly the same (Ξ”E 1.9)Tailwind CSSyellow-300 #FDE047, nearly the same (Ξ”E 1.0)CSS color namesgold #FFD700, nearly the same (Ξ”E 1.6)

Ξ”E is the distance in OKLab: under 2 is hard to see, over 10 is a clearly different color. Browse all RAL colors, the Tailwind palette or the 148 CSS color names. RAL values on screens are only a guide, so check a real color chart before you order paint.

The named colors that look closest to this one (Ξ”E in OKLab). Browse all shades of yellow or search the color library.